[sane-devel] Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 8250 ADF issue

PaulFransen send.me at xs4all.nl
Tue Apr 28 04:06:19 UTC 2009


On Monday 27 April 2009 19:33:27 Rene Rebe wrote:
> On 27.04.2009, at 12:50, PaulFransen wrote:
> > On Sunday 12/04/2009 12:13 ono at safe-mail.net wrote:
> > -------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >> I can try something like SnoopyPro
> >> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/usbsnoop/), much later. I just
> >> left town
> >> for (probably) two months and did not take the scanner with me.
> >>
> >> The proper function of the ADF on my Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 8250
> >> scanner
> >> has always been sensitive to the initial position of its feed
> >> roller, even
> >> when using Windows drivers under the Windows operating system. I do
> >> not
> >> have access to any Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 8250 scanner other than
> >> the one
> >> I own, so I do not know if that type of ADF behavior is common to all
> >> Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 8250 scanners. ==========================
> >> Subject: 	Re: [sane-devel] Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 8250 ADF issue
> >> Date: 	10 Apr 2009 12:56
> >> From: 	René Rebe<rene at exactcode.de>
> >> Apparently from:
> >> 	sane-devel-bounces+ono=safe-mail.net at lists.alioth.debian.org To:
> >> 	ono at Safe-mail.net
> >> Cc: 	sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
> >>
> >> Hey, I'm the Avision backend author, but I do not have this scanner.
> >>
> >> A year ago someone said the hp8250 ADF worked, no idea what
> >> changed or if there are multiple models.
> >>
> >> If you can send me the usbsnoop log from a windows machine
> >> scanning, let's say 2 pages at 200 dpi black&white (to keep the
> >> log small) I can see what I can do.
> >>
> >> ono at Safe-mail.net wrote:
> >> Using a live CD of the 20090409 daily build of Ubuntu 9.04 I used
> >> the xsane
> >> 0.996 application to run my Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 8250 scanner.
> >> Scanning
> >> seemed to work okay except for the ADF.
> >> When trying to use the ADF, the ADF begins to whir without drawing
> >> paper
> >> from the ADF tray and then an error message is generated by xsane
> >> that
> >> states 'Error during read: Scanner cover is open.' The ADF hardware
> >> on my
> >> Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 8250 scanner sometimes functions
> >> inconsistently,
> >> but this xsane error occurs every time I have tried using the ADF. I
> >> noticed some previous messages about a similar problem.
> >> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2008-November/023197
> >>.ht ml http://bugs.debian.org/521410
> >> Is the ADF issue going to be addressed by some future version of
> >> SANE?
> >>
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> >
> > -------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> > I think that this issue has nothing to do with (X)SANE. I own a
> > ScanJet 8250
> > and encountered this problem recently. It appeared to be related to
> > one of
> > the detectors not working properly. When I followed the advice in:
> > http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c0
> >0158021 the problem was resolved.
> >
> >
> > There is another annoying problem with the Avision backend (I think
> > but am not
> > sure) that remains: it will not allow to use the duplex facility of
> > the
> > ScanJet 8250. When you put the switch on the scanner to duplex
> > scanning, it
> > will continue to scan only one side. It works perfectly well when
> > using the
> > HP software under Windows though... This problem has been reported
> > before,
> > see:
> > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2008-November/023196.
> >html
> >
> > Regards, Paul.
>
> I once added some special ADF mode support, does it not work
> if you select --source "ADF Duplex" ?
>
> (I do not have such a scanner I can not test.)
>
> When I added this code the tester said it worked.



I am not in my office right now so I will have to look at it again. As far as 
I can recall there is no "ADF Duplex" option in XSANE. I would love to test 
it for you if you tell me what I should do. Shall I contact you once I am 
back (after 11-05-2009)?

Regards, Paul.



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